If you lived outside America during the 1950s, when rock & roll exploded across the world, the opportunities to see your idols in the flesh were few and far between. Even at home, in North America, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis could only be in one place at a time when performing live. So the obvious marriage was made, between rock & roll and the movies. And back then, all the songs you hear spread over this comprehensive 3CD collection could be heard – and seen! – at the cinema.
Christmas at the Movies is a dazzling new album of movie music which beautifully captures the holiday spirit. The collection spans almost 80 years offering something special for all the family, from timeless classics The Wizard of Oz, White Christmas and Home Alone through to contemporary Christmas blockbusters Frozen and Elf. Newly recorded arrangements with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra provide the perfect festive sound-track for essential holiday preparations - decorating the tree, baking mince pies, wrapping the presents and more! Plus one track with multi-million streaming artist and YouTube sensation - The Piano Guys! Relive treasured memories of Christmas movies around the fire, or treat someone special with this perfect present - Christmas at the Movies – it’s the most wonderful time of the year!
English guitar legend Hank Marvin inspired a generation of British post-war guitarists with his smooth, plectrum-based guitar lines. Backing Cliff Richard with his band The Shadows, Hank's guitar playing inspired The Beatles and a generation of British groups starting out in the 1960s. This album sees Hank performing a plethora of songs from the big screen, both recent and vintage. All are flawlessly executed with the smooth melodic perfection that audiences have come to expect from Hank. This album contains a wide range of material–"The Sound of Silence" from The Graduate, "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, "How Deep Is Your Love?" from Saturday Night Fever and "A Kiss From A Rose" from Batman Forever. Hank purists will enjoy the James Bond Medley containing the James Bond theme, plus music from You Only Live Twice, From Russia With Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
With two decades of albums under his belt, the Nashville-based, warmly gruff singer-songwriter Will Hoge draws on a wealth of experience in the business. “When you're making records early on and you're working with big labels, the expectations are so big, because people start thinking about radio and formats and stardom and all of these things,” he tells Apple Music. “It's just like, ‘Well, you don't want to be too loud or too slow or too fast or too rocking or too quiet.’” Hoge applies that hard-earned perspective to his self-produced 11th studio LP Tiny Little Movies. “We can really just focus on what feels good,” he says. “There's some really, really quiet songs on this record, and I think that's how those songs should sound. There's also really loud, rocking songs, and that's how they should sound. I don't think you have to try to file down the edges of things to make them palatable for every single person. I think that's where you start to lose.”